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Prisoners walk out of Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday. The government has begun releasing prisoners but has held back on freeing some prominent political figures. (Associated Press)

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"Otherwise, remember what happened in Uganda's capital," said al-Shabab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Al-Shabab fighters display weapons as they conduct military exercises Oct. 21, 2010, in northern Mogadishu, Somalia. (Associated Press)

An Afghan security officer (center) collects evidence from the site of an attack by militants at the gate of an American base in Panjshir, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Militants tried to blast their way into the base before dawn with rocket-propelled grenades and a vehicle packed with explosives. All four of the attackers were killed, and two Afghan security guards were wounded. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

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A Chinese soldier stands guard at the entrance to the military museum in Beijing on Oct. 17, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Police look on as protesters, who are part of the Occupy London Stock Exchange demonstration, continue their demonstration outside St Paul's Cathedral in London on Sunday. There were also protests in Rome and Amsterdam. (Associated Press)

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Chicago police carry away a protester early Sunday. Police arrested 175 people protesting what they called corporate greed after they refused to take down their tents and leave Grant Park when it closed Saturday night. (Associated Press)

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Protesters, some holding a picture of a defaced logo of a television channel, crowd a street in Tunis, Tunisia, after Friday prayer. The protest was sparked by the airing on television of "Persepolis," an animated film that has offended ultraconservative Muslims. (Associated Press)

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Chicago police carry away a protester early Sunday. Police arrested 175 members of a group protesting corporate greed after they refused to take down their tents and leave Grant Park when it closed Saturday night. (Associated Press)

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Police look on as protesters, who are part of the Occupy London Stock Exchange demonstration, continue their demonstration outside St Paul's Cathedral in London on Sunday. There were also protests in Rome and Amsterdam. (Associated Press)

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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said, "We shall never have troops coming to fight for us. I cannot accept foreign troops to come and fight for me. We have the capacity to fight our wars." He said U.S. personnel will gather intelligence. (Associated Press)

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Protesters, some holding a picture of a defaced logo of a television channel, crowd a street in Tunis, Tunisia, after Friday prayer. The protest was sparked by the airing on television of "Persepolis," an animated film that has offended ultraconservative Muslims. (Associated Press)

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Libyan revolutionary fighters use heavy machinery to tear down a guard tower at Col. Moammar Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, Libya, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany)

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Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan attends the OutServe Armed Forces Leadership Summit on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

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On Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, a Palestinian prisoner flashes a V-sign on board an Israeli Prison Service bus transferring Palestinian prisoners who are to be exchanged for captured Israeli Sgt. Gilad Schalit. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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On Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, a U.S. Army soldier walks past military Humvees that are to be shipped out of Iraq from a staging yard at Camp Sather, part of the sprawling U.S. military's Victory Base Complex in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) ** FILE **

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A car is set on fire as protesters clash with police in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, as violence broke out during a demonstration, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures. The "Occupy Wall Street" protests, that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S., moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Anti-government protestors carry a wounded protestor from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Medical officials in Yemen say security forces have fired on protesters in the capital Sanaa, killing several and wounding dozens. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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A Pakistani police officer stands guard in June at a police station damaged by suicide bombers in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. The bombing, which killed nine officers, was in retaliation for the deaths of four Black Night Taliban killed by police 10 days earlier after a brazen daylight bank robbery. (Associated Press)

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Revolutionary fighters celebrate an accurate tank shot at Gadhafi loyalist positions in Sirte, Libya, on Thursday. Anti-Gadhafi fighters have been closing in on armed supporters of the fugitive leader in Sirte, the most important of two major cities yet to be cleared of loyalists more than two months after the fall of Tripoli. (Associated Press)